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RebootUSA -- Documenting 100 days to change America

PURPOSE

RebootUSA is an initiative of the Information Valet Project at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Our goal is to pilot a new form of collaboration among professional, displaced and "amateur" journalists and engaged citizens. Part "wiki," part blog and part traditional news resource, RebootUSA will document, assess -- and perhaps help guide -- a transformation of the United States economy, civic sphere and outlook.

HOW IT WORKS

RebootUSA will apply the techniques of social networks and the immediacy of the World Wide web to continuously inform, reveal, challenge and celebrate the effects of policies of the new U.S. administration during its first "100 days". Not by concentrating on Washington, D.C., but by soliciting and elevating the sentiments, ideas, needs of ordinary Americans where they live and work, as seen by their co-workers, friends, plus working and retired journalist contributors. They will contribute via:

  • A wiki-format news network
  • Videos and photographs
  • Participation in community discussions
  • what else?

FEATURES, BENEFITS